arXiv AI

PARALLEL: A Prefrontal-Aligned Reinforcement inspired Approach for Language-Model Learning under Explicit Limits

arXiv:2607. 28982v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent language models achieve strong performance across a variety of tasks, but conventional adaptation applies updates uniformly across training samples regardless of their local update benefit.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

The Mirage of Optimizing Training Policies: Monotonic Inference Policies as the Real Objective for LLM Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 29526v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has gained growing attention in large language model (LLM) post-training, yet RL training remains fragile and can suffer from instability or collapse.

By Jing Liang, Hongyao Tang, Yi Ma, Yancheng He, Weixun Wang, Xiaoyang Li, Ju Huang, Wenbo Su, Jinyi Liu, Yan Zheng, Jianye Hao, Bo Zheng
arXiv AI
2d ago

Your Language Model is Its Own Critic: Reinforcement Learning with Value Estimation from Actor's Internal States

The paper introduces POISE, a reinforcement learning algorithm that uses a model’s internal states as a value estimator to reduce variance in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). By employing a lightweight probe that reads internal signals during the forward pass, POISE predicts baselines online and uses a cross‑rollout construction to keep gradients unbiased. Experiments on Qwen3‑4B and OLMo3‑7B‑Instruct‑DPO across six domains show POISE outperforms existing RLVR baselines, offering more stable training and a value model that generalizes across tasks and scales with the policy.

By Yunho Choi, Jongwon Lim, Woojin Ahn, Minjae Oh, Jeonghoon Shim, Yohan Jo
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 27

Performance Foundations of Parallel & Distributed Reasoning Language Models

The paper examines the computational challenges of training Reasoning Language Models (RLMs) using reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) and similar post‑training methods. It provides a compute‑centric analysis of popular RL algorithms such as PPO and GRPO, and introduces a taxonomy of intra‑ and inter‑model parallelism strategies—including traditional and novel techniques—to improve scalability and cost‑efficiency. The authors also evaluate existing RLM frameworks and offer practical guidelines and research directions for building high‑performance, scalable RLMs.